Melissa leads Turn Two’s editorial and creative content teams, helping clients strip away jargon, identify the human stakes in their stories, and capture the details that make their messages impossible to ignore. 

She’s an award-winning journalist who’s spent 30 years in newsrooms, most recently at Forbes, where she managed and edited contributors covering topics ranging from AI’s effects on the workplace to shifts in federal science policies. 

Before Forbes, she was editor-in-chief of Austin Monthly and its sister publications; a feature writer and business editor at Computerworld; and a reporter and editor at Boston daily and weekly newspapers. 

Melissa, who earned her master’s in journalism at Northeastern University, has devoted her career to coaching others. She spent years teaching writing at the College of Charleston and mentoring students there, and she’s a longtime mentor for Report for America, which places early-career reporters in newsrooms to cover underreported topics. 

In all of her roles, Melissa is driven by a central goal: respect the audience, find the real story, and make the work impossible to ignore.

Email Melissa: melissa@turn-two.co